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Best of 2022: Rudy Lu’s Year in Review
2022 has been a year of transition. Many openings, closings, creative endeavors, and continuances of events in the performing arts as we gradually emerge from our post-Covid…
Best of 2022: Steve Nover’s Best Concerts of the Year
Editor's Note: Steve Nover has been a Nippertown-area icon for many, many years. If you go see live music, you have certainly seen him, even if you didn't know it. But he's…
Best of 2022: Michael Hochanadel’s Year in Review
Box offices are humming, seats are filling again and once-dimmed marquees blaze with big names.After the limited “break” from claustrophobic Covid caution in the summer…
BEST OF 2022: J Hunter’s Jazz2K Awards, and “The Rest of The Best”
No smartass introduction this time: I’m saving all my smartass for 2024, when I think we’ll need all the smartass we can get. With that in mind, let’s hand out some bowling…
My favorite Unsigned518 interview of 2022
TROY - As host of Unsigned518, a weekly podcast on Nippertown I began in May of 2022, I talk to a lot of 518 bands and musicians. So, when I was asked what my favorite…
BEST of 2021: WEXT Radio Releases Top Local 518 Releases
Each year, since 2007, WEXT Radio has listed off the most played Local 518 songs of the year. And each year, we are all just blown away by the amazing talent in this…
Best of 2021: Greater Nippertown Area Theater
We drove to Stamford, CT in February to see a play but it was late April before there were productions in the Capital Region. Much of the theater we saw this year was…
Best of 2021: Top 10 Jazz2k Releases of 2021
Okay, time for the rubber to meet the road. IT’S “FOR THE WIN!”NUMBER TEN…JOHN CHIN (feat. RICHARD JULIAN) – Anything Mose! (Jinsy Music)One of the best moments…
Best of 2021: Year In Review Plus A Forward Peak
Typically, we would generally start with the beginning and work our way to the present, but given all the New Year’s Eve show runs being canceled across the country, and some…
Best of 2021: That Fuzzing Rock Show
Well Nippertown, The end of the year is upon us. Of course, everyone is coming out with my favorite… the top 10 __ (fill in your blank) of 2021. Well, you know me and…
Ten Moments from 2021 that Mattered to the Local Music Scene
As the year comes to a close, it’s worthwhile to reflect back on what transpired and what is likely to have a lasting effect on our local music scene. This is not a…
Best of 2020: WEXT’s Top Local 518 Countdown
Happy New Year! 2020 was not our favorite year, but when it came to spinning songs by our Local 518 bands and artists it was divine!Courtesy of WEXT Radio, get your…